Word: factualism
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...while the conference focused on factual information about South Africa, the issue of divestiture surfaced frequently during the day's events, including the final panel discussion...
...scholarly equivalent of a lover singing the praises of his beloved's toes, but it's also a statement about the ultimate futility of biography on a large scale. The second chapter, entitled "Chronology," gives a Rashomon-like series of perspectives on Flaubert's lifeline, all strictly factual and yet entirely contradictory. Once the big picture is safely relegated to the dusty attic of preceding scholarship, Braithwaite gives us his Flaubert--thin slices through the tissue of the writer's life along various thematic points. We can never know everything about a writer, but we can know nearly everything about...
...theory, at least, the new technology has the power to transform the nature of the university. Much routine advising could shift to a network of personal computers linked to a common data base so that students could instantly have the answers to a host of factual questions, about course requirements, employment interviews, campus events, and homework assignments. In time, lectures could move from classrooms to television screens so that students could listen to a professor and immediately test their comprehension of the material by working through a series of questions and problems presented by an appropriate computer program. Science concentrators...
...THINK ABOUT IT, YOU'LL CHOOSE AT&T." Really? Since there is little factual reason for a consumer, especially a college student, to choose what is the most expensive telephone service. AT&T has run, a campaign based on repetition, rather than reasoning. Whether AT&T' dinner-table tactics are merely "aggressive," as Romano claims, or "bordering on predatory," in Lawrence's words, students should think carefully about then long distance, carrier and make a choice based on what saves them the most money...
Santilli's charges are far reaching--from the misconduct of individual physicists regarding his own work to general and perhaps conspiratorial activities at many institutions throughout the U.S. These charges are not made frivolously, he has amassed three volumes of correspondence, referee reports, and official documents corroborating every factual statement in his book...